Episode 8: The ChatGPT Awakens, January 20, 2023

New year, new hype? As the world gets swept up in the fervor over ChatGPT of late 2022, Emily and Alex give a deep sigh and begin to unpack the wave of fresh enthusiasm over large language models and the "chat" format specifically.

Plus, more fresh AI hell.

This episode was recorded on January 20, 2023.

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References:

Situating Search (Shah & Bender 2022) 

Related op-ed: https://iai.tv/articles/all-knowing-machines-are-a-fantasy-auid-2334

Piantadosi's thread showing ChatGPT writing a program to classify white males as good scientists

Find Anna Lauren Hoffman's publications (though not yet the one we were referring to) here: https://www.annaeveryday.com/publications

Sarah T. Roberts, Behind the Screen 

Karen Hao's AI Colonialism series 

Milagros Miceli: https://www.weizenbaum-institut.de/en/spezialseiten/persons-details/p/milagros-miceli/

Julian Posada: https://posada.website/

“This Isn’t Your Data, Friend”: Black Twitter as a Case Study on Research Ethics for Public Data (Klassen & Fiesler 2022) 

No Humans Here: Ethical Speculation on Public Data, Unintended Consequences, and the Limits of Institutional Review (Pater, Fiesler & Zimmer 2022) 

Casey Fiesler's publications: https://caseyfiesler.com/publications/
And TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@professorcasey

Where are human subjects in Big Data research? The emerging ethics divide. (Metcalf & Crawford 2016) 

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Music by Toby Menon.
Artwork by Naomi Pleasure-Park.
Production by Christie Taylor.